Hayyim ben Joseph Vital (Hebrew: חַיִּים בֶּן יוֹסֵף וִיטָאל; Safed, October 23, 1542 (Julian calendar) / October 11, 1542 (Gregorian Calendar) – Damascus...

reincarnations of historic Jewish figures, which were compiled by Hayyim ben Joseph Vital in his Shaar HaGilgulim. In Judaism: Lurianic Kabbalah Ibbur Dybbuk...

in the Zohar. The main popularizer of Luria's ideas was Rabbi Hayyim ben Joseph Vital of Calabria, who claimed to be the official interpreter of the...

Jericho by Joshua (Book of Joshua ch. 6). 29 Nisan (1620) – Death of Hayyim ben Joseph Vital, a Kabbalist and a disciple of Isaac Luria.[citation needed] 29...

mystical spiritual world. A studied example of this group was Hayyim ben Joseph Vital, and their rules of ascetic lifestyle (Hanhagoth) are documented...

Zohar and the teachings of Isaac Luria as passed down through Hayyim ben Joseph Vital. However, even this qualification does little to limit the scope...

person without Nefesh, a soul, i.e. without true faith: Similarly, R. Chaim Vital also describes431 this sin as excluding one from the World to Come, 'weaving...

Luria's most important ideas that he stressed in his lectures. Hayyim Vital Israel Sarug Samuel ben Isaac de Uçeda Hebrew: האר"י, meaning "the Lion"; derived...

Lag Baomer. The source for this idea appears to be a passage by Hayyim ben Joseph Vital, which read שמחת רשב"י "the celebration of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai"...

and Hayyim Vital were reincarnations of Messiah ben Joseph. However, the world was not yet ready for the coming of the messiah.: 29–30 : 191  Hayyim Vital...